Costa Rica Participates Tender

In an intense agenda of activities Ambassador Montserrat Solano Carboni Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the Organization of American States OAS Mr. Luis Salazar Muoz Presidential Commissioner for the Affairs of the LGBTI Population of Costa Rica and officials of the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica participated in a meeting of the LGBTI-OAS Core Group of which Argentina Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica El Salvador the United States Mexico and Uruguay are part.The meeting was also attended by Dr. Flavia Piovesan member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Rapporteur on the Rights of LGBTI Persons in the Americas.Among the topics discussed were the progress made in the member countries of the group in the recognition and protection of the rights of LGBTI persons. The decision of the Constitutional Chamber of Costa Rica regarding the Advisory Opinion of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights was highlighted. Human Rights for recognition of the rights of all LGBTI persons including equal marriage.Ambassador Solano Carboni and the Presidential Commissioner provided details of the fulfillment of national goals for the recognition of gender in the identity documents of all Costa Ricans as well as the promotion of an inclusive national agenda.On December 5 2018 the hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights CIDH on the State of equal marriage in the Region was held. Ambassador Solano Carboni the Presidential Commissioner Luis Salazar and the officials of the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the OAS attended the audience in which Costa Rican civil society participated represented by the Association of Homoparental and Diverse Families.In addition the Presidential Commissioner participated as a panelist in the event Elected positions advancing hemispheric priorities through inclusion and diversity held from December 5 to 7 2018 organized by the LGBTQ Victory Institute and the Department of Social Inclusion of the OAS.El seor Salazar Muoz fue parte del panel de discusin sobre Derechos Humanos el imperativo legal de prevenir la discriminacin y fomentar la inclusin as como en la Conferencia Internacional de Lderes LGBTIQ sobre la perspectiva de la igualdad en Europa Amrica Latina y la India. En el evento se analizaron los alcances de la Opinin Consultiva OC-2417 de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos y su adecuada implementacin en Costa Rica y en la regin.The Presidential Commissioner also held meetings with the Ambassador of Costa Rica in the United States of America Mr. Fernando Llorca the Commissioner of the IACHR and Rapporteur for LGBTI Affairs Flavia Piovesan with the Director of the Department of Social Inclusion of the OAS Mrs. Betilde Muoz-Pogossian with Mr. Randy Boissonnault Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau of Canada for LGBTQ2 issues with the Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission CICAD Ambassador Adam E. Namm on issues related to the care of the LGBTI population in the region and with Mrs. Rebeca Omaa of the Program for the Universalization of Civil Identity in the Americas.